“I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.”
Wisdom
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
ArtAll Quotes by John Keats
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
Experience“What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.”
Beauty“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Intelligence“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.”
Love“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”
Death“Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.”
Beauty“Love is my religion - I could die for it.”
Love“My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.”
Imagination“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”
Poetry“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Nature“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
Art“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.”
Beauty“Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Poetry“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”
Nature“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
Failure“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.”
Imagination“You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
Great“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”
Poetry“Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.”
Nature